Resident Evil 5 Release Date Announced

The week Resident Evil: Afterlife hit theaters, writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson was already talking up Resident Evil 5. Anderson and his wife, franchise star Milla Jovovich, are very passionate and confident about the series and they let it be known at the time that they wanted to get the fans involved in helping pick the direction for the 5th Resident Evil.

Although we haven’t heard about Resident Evil 5 since that report in September, we all knew another Resident Evil movie was on its way. Despite weak reviews – which don’t matter with a franchise like this – Resident Evil: Afterlife earned nearly $300 million at the worldwide box office, an impressive doubling over its preceding franchise installment, Resident Evil: Extinction. Afterlife also marked the franchise’s first jump into the realm of 3D and was applauded for actually shooting the film in 3D, rather than post-converting the entire thing.

Like the video game franchise, which set new sales records with its last installment, the Resident Evil movies are basking in the same success. Sony Screen Gems is determined to bring back Alice (Milla Jovovich) and co. and have announced the Resident Evil 5 release date for September 14, 2012. While we sill don’t know officially whether or not Anderson will write and direct, we expect him to be involved and for the primary cast to return.

Since Paul W.S. Anderson took advantage of key elements of the Resident Evil 5 video game, likely taking advice from me (although not really), they’ll have to mine ideas from somewhere else or get creative with the story and villains. Unless of course, they have access to Capcom’s conceptual art and designs for the still-unannounced Resident Evil 6 game…

Resident Evil: Afterlife concluded with Alice, Claire Redfield (Ali Larter), Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller) and K-Mart (Spencer Locke) heading out to sea on the Umbrella research ship with the survivors they rescued. Perhaps the next film will start with them finding land to setup a village and we go from there or start from that specific moment as the enemy helicopters close in. Or, could Resident Evil 5 be a reboot as reported back in 2009? Either way, the fans support Resident Evil and want more.

Resident Evil 5 is now officially scheduled to hit theaters September 14, 2012.

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dude why? if youve seen the first one youve seen them all its the same rehashed plot over and over. alice save some people, fights some zombies, theres a mystery, and she fights a t-virus mutated antagonist. its literaly the same thing over and over.

who cares, if he likes it, he likes it. I personaly thought the last one was too rushed but it was what I expected from these movies and P W Anderson. I think what I liked was that they attepmted to depower Alice, the creature design for the Hammer man was pretty cool and the 3d was actually much better then most of the other 3d movies Ive seen. I think a reboot would be great and that they really do need to have Leon and Clair, and stay true to the original Game.

I watch these films because i love anything zombie-related but for the love of god put some effort into making the next one GOOD. We get it, these are fun, brainless action/horror flicks but 4 is ENOUGH. Make a good one or instead, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, reboot the franchise and make it true to the games.

all this does is scream win. RE:A was epically hilarious, especially in 3D. Not only did they not explain 85% of the movie, they completely screwed the beginning of a 5th movie. ::SPOILERALERT:: I mean how can they get away on that slow ass freighter with all those gigantic war helicopters closing in on them with Jill Valentine ready to bust a cap in their asses. I mean, they have to really ret-con something brilliant to get out of that mess.

this is how that will work , the choppers are going to land they will search the ship and alice and people will escape on the choppers , cause the boat is actually filled with zombies and the chopper crew will be busy with them

i hate these movies and hope they stop making them, and will not ever watch the next one. i however will watch a remake if its a horror film instead of action and is story driven and directed by someone like chris nolan. if not my resident evil fan days are over.

If this isn’t a reboot I will be pretty pissed. Regardless if the past movies were good, they shouldn’t have even called the movie series Resident Evil, because the relationship between the game and the movies is so far off it is almost laughable.

Hopefully they get rid of Alice and put in the true characters and let them shine. The Chris, Jill, Wesker, and Claire I have seen so far were a complete and absolute joke.

This is great news. I love the movies and I love Milla, Ali Later, Sienna and Redfield. The 4th was the best movie by far.

This won’t be a reboot, it will continue the story. If you don’t like it, too bad! I’m still watching!

Also, you forgot the real ending, which was Jill Valentine (As Wesker’s new subordinate) leading the Umbrella fleet to kill Alice and co. Wesker didn’t die either. The next installment with definitley see Wesker and Jill as the villains, several new Umbrella monsters, and an epic fight scene between Alice and Jill Valentine.

Awesome All I can Say.I hope they continue with the same Actors and Same Director I am definelty looking forward to another Resident Evil Movie Big Fan of the Games and Big Fan of the Movies I loved them all and I thought they were all great maybe the first one lacked in Animation but they improved on everyone..I also am really looking forward to Jill Valentine and Wesker as the Villians..I think that Wesker should continue his Uroboros Project with a new Legue and her name is called Alexia working with Tricell to create the Uroboros Project..now that would be a good Resident Evil 5 Movie Maybe there is a flash back when Jill and Chris fought against Wesker for the First time to try to take him down and Failed Jill Valentine was Kidnapped and working under the authority of Wesker(the Kidnaper)After the Incedents that happened after Resident Evil 2 Apocolopse Which will lead to Resident Evil 5 the Movie

Everyone talks about how they want a reboot that actually sticks to the stories of the games.

That would suck, and here’s why. The first film would flop, because it would be two hours of people just walking around a mansion reacting to every creepy noise they hear, looking for weird shaped keys, and every so often fighting a zombie. Then at the end of the film, give us something more when they face Tyrant.

The movie would flop because people aren’t going to sit through a movie of people just walking around a creepy mansion.

I love resident evil 4. I have all of them movies at home and I really do hope they come out with resident evil 5 and keep the same characters in it. When I saw afterlife I couldn’t believe that I saw zombie swimming that was crazy And coming out of the ground and the walls man that was so freaking good. I love zombie movies and I had all the games. I just want to thank the director and actress and actors that made this film possible and please come out with part 5. Thank u. so mote to be

I love resident evil 4. I have all of them movies at home and I really do hope they come out with resident evil 5 and keep the same characters in it. When I saw afterlife I couldn’t believe that I saw zombie swimming that was crazy And coming out of the ground and the walls man that was so freaking good. I love zombie movies and I had all the games. I just want to thank the director and actress and actors that made this film possible and please come out with part 5. Thank u. so mote to be

Honestly, i think wesker should’ve turned into that giant thing he turns into at the end of res. 5. although they may have that in the next video, cuz we all know, wesker can’t die just like that. They need some bigger, badder monsters.

I liked the first movie, the second one because of that huge zombie thing who used to be her friend (which was pretty darn creepy looking), and even liked the movie she realized she was a clone (or was being cloned?).

But that last one, number 4, was so bad that me and my son both shook our heads and gave up watching half way through. It’s that bad.

Milla is hot, no doubt. Something about that little chick just does it for me, but it isnt enough to carry my butt into a theater or buy a DVD anymore to watch another installment like the 4th. Im shocked it did so well and brought in tons of money, because it really is one of those B movies that is so riddled with cliche circumstances it was almost a parody of itself.

Again, Im not looking for oscar material, lol, Im not even expecting that much at all – except to have the next one please not feel like a straight to vhs puppet master 12 type of bilge.

I thought Afterlife was the worst installment thus far, I utterly hated it, it was barely a Resident Evil film at all. The only reason it made any money was because it was in 3D. If it had been 2D only its box office would have been around the $175 million mark.

I hope they dont get rid of Alice and her current friends at all! I hope in the forth one Alice and Co. shut the Umbrella coreration down for good and make a fresh start to the world, everyone going from country to country and killing all zombies!

The world needs to come back same with human life! Humans cannot lose tbh!